Dr Almut Beige

Associate Professor for Quantum Photonics

Head of the Theoretical Physics Group
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Leeds

Room: 3.16A in the Bragg Building
Email: a.beige@leeds.ac.uk
Phone: 0113 3433899

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Thanks to Philip Goyal for making the recordings of the Vadstena 2024 conference on "New approaches to the foundations of quantum physics" available on YouTube.

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A special issue on Quantum Resource Theories: From Entanglement to Time Correlations and Measurement-Induced Noise in MDPI Entropy is currently open for paper submission. Deadline is the 30th of April 2025.

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Selected publications:

• Acceleration without photon pair creation,
  S. Kanzi D. Hodgson and A. Beige, submitted. arXiv:2503.09863.
• Enhanced Laser Cooling of a Mechanical Resonator via Zero-Photon Detection,
  E. A. Cryer-Jenkins, K. D. Major, J. Clarke, G. Enzian, M. Szczykulska, J. Zhang, A. Gupta, A. C. Leung, H. Rathee, A. Ø. Svela, A. K. C. Tan, A. Beige, K. Mølmer, and M. R. Vanner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 073601 (2025). arXiv:2408.01734.
• Local photon model of the momentum of light (Editor's Suggestion),
  G. Waite, D. Hodgson, B. Lang, V. Alapatt and A. Beige, Phys. Rev. A 111, 023703 (2025). arXiv:2410.03633.
• Mirror-mediated ultralong-range dipole-dipole interactions,
  N. Furtak-Wells, B. Dawson, T. Mann, G. Jose, and A. Beige, Opt. Quantum Electron. 56, 1287 (2024). arXiv:2305.18826.
• Quantum physics cannot be captured by classical linear hidden variable theories even in the absence of entanglement,
  K. Al Rasbi, L. A. Clark, and A. Beige, Front. Phys. 12, 1325239 (2024). arXiv:2310.13815.
• A physically-motivated quantisation of the electromagnetic field,
  R. Bennett, T. M. Barlow, and A. Beige, Eur. J. Phys. 37, 014001 (2016). arXiv:1506.03305.
• Robust entanglement through macroscopic quantum jumps,
  J. Metz, M. Trupke, and A. Beige, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 040503 (2006). arXiv:0510051.
• Repeat-until-success linear optics distributed quantum computing,
  Y. L. Lim, A. Beige, and L. C. Kwek, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 030505 (2005). quant-ph/0408043.
• Quantum computing using dissipation to remain in a decoherence-free subspace,
  A. Beige, D. Braun, B. Tregenna, and P. L. Knight, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1762 (2000). quant-ph/0004043.
• Projection postulate and atomic quantum Zeno effect,
  A. Beige and G. C. Hegerfeldt, Phys. Rev. A 53, 53 (1996). arXiv:quant-ph/9512012.